The RCMP said Wednesday afternoon that it has received “credible information of a potential terrorist threat.”

Police, who released no other detail about the threat including which city it was made, said a suspect has been identified, “and the proper course of action has been taken to ensure that there is no danger to the public’s safety.”

The RCMP said in a statement that it takes all such threats seriously and because the matter is unfolding, “we are not able to provide further comment at this time.

“We encourage Canadians to remain alert and to immediately report any suspicious or unusual behaviour to their local police or by contacting the National Security Information Network at 1-800-420-5805.”

Separately, a man who identified himself as Douglas McLaughlin, with the RCMP headquarters in Surrey, phoned a Vancouver Sun-Province reporter Wednesday afternoon seeking the contact information of a man quoted in a 2014 Vancouver Sun story.

That person had been quoted in relation to Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the man police identified as having shot Corp. Nathan Cirillo at Ottawa’s National War Memorial in 2014 in retaliation for Canadian military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The quoted man had told the reporter after the Ottawa shooting that he once lived at the same Downtown Eastside shelter with Zehaf-Bibeau, who would then speak about his dislike of the U.S. and Canada and belief that the Middle East would take over the world.

It is not known whether the call from the RCMP was related to Wednesday’s arrest.

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